- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Phyllanthaceae
- Basionym : Clutia androgyna L.
- Synonym(s) : Sauropus albicans Blume; Sauropus indicus Wight
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Breynia androgyna (L.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr.
- Common name : Chikurmanis, Sauropus
- Vernacular name :
- Vitamin soppuni gida, Chakra muni gida (Kannada)
- Elakeera, Velicheera (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Comments / notes : Grown in homesteads
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Idukki district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 382
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sauropus androgynus. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.
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